Daily Gratitude: Amen to this! I can tell you from personal experience that I wish I as been taught this a long time ago. Most people I know never take the time to listen to what their bodies are trying to tell them. They never rest. They always have to be doing. Pleasing, achieving, reaching. How many more “-ing”s do you need. Instead of going going gone, it is better to be going going pause…going again. Have you ever asked yourself WHY? why you keep pushing so hard? What were your answers? I can feel my nervous system getting wound up just writing this. In the past I wouldn’t have given these sensations any notice. It took almost dying in 2017 to come to this realization. My body had been whispering, then talking, then texting, then calling…and when I didn’t listen, well then the screams came – all at once. It was as if the volcano finally erupted. And I wouldn’t want anyone to experience this. Just as I don’t want people to experience all the chronic pain that’s out there. Do you think it’s just a coincidence that people are endlessly driving their bodies and nervous system into the great abyss and they are coming out with chronic pain. Listen up. Your body is telling you something.